Gold! : the story of the 1848 gold rush and how it shaped a nation /
On January 24, 1848, as carpenter James Marshall worked on building a sawmill at John Sutter's Fort, east of Sacramento, California, he accidentally discovered a pea-sized nugget of gold in a ditch. Just like that, the scope of the American myth changed. From 1848 to 1850, 90,000 people trekked...
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Thunder's Mouth Press ; Distributed by Publishers Group West,
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